From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Circular dependencies between libraries - what to do?
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:04:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw9tkfer.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvtx4129pd.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> I'm probably asking for trouble, but B actually does not work without A,
>> and A calls B functions, so they do require each other.
>
> You can try to restructure the files, so as to get rid of
> the circularity.
>
> Or you can load the files differently. E.g. instead of top-level
> `require', you can use autoloads, so that loading A doesn't load B, but
> when A calls functions from B, then B gets loaded. Or instead of
> autoloads, you can place a (require 'B) *inside* the functions of A that
> call functions from B.
ok, seems I found a way to 'distribute' the requires without introducing
circularity. Thanks for the tips.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-20 21:21 Circular dependencies between libraries - what to do? Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-20 22:49 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-20 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-21 0:04 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
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2014-09-21 1:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-21 1:52 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-21 10:37 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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2014-09-20 21:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-20 22:03 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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2014-09-30 14:25 ` Christoph Wedler
2014-09-30 14:38 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-30 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-06 16:30 ` Aurélien Aptel
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2014-09-30 21:28 ` Emanuel Berg
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